The Peeters family, Belgian refugees at Witton Park, County Durham, 1914. The father of the family, Jaen or Joannes Peeters, had been coachman to the burgomaster of Aerschot and was amongst the men of the town shot dead by members of the invading German army in reprisals for the killing of Colonel Johannes Stenger. His two 16 year old sons narrowly escaped the same fate but witnessed the execution of their father

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